HEDLD 999 - Research Team Leadership 101 for Academics-How to Manage an Effective Research Team

This course presents a template for team management and leadership that is specific to an academic environment. Using the 'Competing Values Skills Assessment Leadership Role Profile' developed for Corporate America, we will discuss strategies for recruiting, supervising, mentoring, and motivating research students to maximize team strengths. We will discuss how to build systems that monitor the measurements of a research team's success: project performance, reporting, publication, accounting, research personnel output, recruiting, and proposal progress. We will talk about minimizing waste caused by repetition of effort, wasted time, and poor communication. In short, this course teaches participants how to lead, manage and sustain an effective research team by capitalizing on strengths and minimizing weaknesses.